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“If your stomach is starting to obstruct the view of your manhood you shouldn’t ignore it”

Plus carrying weight around the middle has been found to be particularly risky. A recent study from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester found people of normal weight who carry extra fat around their belly had a higher risk dying from heart disease than obese people.

That is why a waist measurement is seen as a more accurate reflection of a person’s health than their body mass index or BMI, which is calculated using height and weight measurements.

‘Our research shows that if a person has a normal BMI, this by itself should not reassure them that their risk for heart disease is low,’ said study researcher Dr Francisco Lopez-Jimenez.

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You know, I’ve never had to worry about losing my job to a younger person because I out-work circles around them. Now, it’s going to be even easier with them choomin’ all the time. I’m for states’ rights, so what the hell. But watch them scream when the first state decides to ban abortion. Oh, they won’t like states’ rights then! Until then, they can live in their filth, and I will still take care of and love my family. Good to see you, brother.

(OK, you knew that someone would offer us some sophomoric remark about the size of his johnson, so why not your old friend turfmann – after all, I haven’t progressed socially since I was twelve and never miss a Three Stooges marathon)

OIt’s not the fat tissue but the underlying organs that kill you. If your belly is hanging out it means your abdominal wall is weak. Your guts are like a baloon; if you allow them room to eexpand, they’ll collect as much shit as you shovel in there. Next thing you know you’re passing less than a third of what you eat and absorbing none of it. Your circulatory system strains to make use of any of this tangled, clogged apparatus while your guts immune system works in overdrive all the time trying to cope with the rotting shit caked to your insides. Ten situps and a salad once in a while is all.